Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can appreciate Edouard would rather have me wasting my time at the museum instead of going round to his flat and trying to persuade Barbara Coleman to leave , but sending someone to kill me was rather an over-reaction . ’ |
| 2 | I made my entry at the end of the song . |
| 3 | When I was out on the road I mean before I came into training I was so I laid my cards at the table at this point in time to say yes I need to sell insurance erm and I always remember particular broker who you go in and and he 's saying well so how many of these particular products would you sell over the next year and he said oh twenty five and you go in great , guy 's promised to sell twenty five domestic contents policies over the next year . |
| 4 | I trust our tenants at the end of the day if it is illegal I 'm sure that our tenants will not do it . |
| 5 | If he gets back , tell him I expect his attendance at the ball . ’ |
| 6 | I have this from her own mouth , for I visited her house at the Falster ferry , at a time when her husband was arrested for a crime . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I changed my mind at the last minute . ’ |
| 8 | I discharged my responsibility at the court , and that is that . |
| 9 | One very quick point , sorry erm I do n't want to sound as if I feel I can but er I welcome your comment at the beginning the condition be be left out on what 's going on because I thought this was actually the key function of this committee and I mean I see these are being decision has been taken . |
| 10 | He sat next to me and I wrinkled my nose at the sweaty odour emanating from the long , black , food-stained gown he wore . |
| 11 | I have a pee , then I wash my hands at the sink . |
| 12 | So I put my mind at the place where the character I 'm playing is , and whatever is making her cry , I work on that and make that affect me . |
| 13 | I shake my head at the Amiga screen . |
| 14 | We opposed various stages of the Bill , regretting the fact that it did not cover consumer safety ; but , on Third Reading , I committed our party at the Dispatch Box — this was just before an election — to honouring the existence of the Office of Fair Trading and the appointment of John Methven as director general . |
| 15 | I dropped my rope at the base of one of the trees and started to rake , struggling to keep from slipping on the steep slope with its loose pine-needle surface . |
| 16 | I received my mail at the barracks and showered there in the mornings . |
| 17 | I enjoy my work at the playgroup and hope I will be able to continue for many years to come ’ |
| 18 | She should be able to move in by the end of next week , and I 'll never be so happy as when I wave her goodbye at the front door . |
| 19 | Indeed , I recall my impression at the time was of having stepped into a prison cell , but then this might have had as much to do with the pale early light as with the size of the room or the bareness of its walls . |
| 20 | Sadie Stewart from Duncairn Gardens in the west of the city said : ‘ I get my pension at the local post office . |
| 21 | I arranged her suicide at the age of twenty-six and I felt that if this was n't ‘ the ’ truth I had certainly approached ‘ a ’ truth . |
| 22 | I remember his determination at the first exploratory meeting in the upstairs room of a small pub off Victoria Street in London . |
| 23 | Erm I did give out a plea about two hours ago that I lost my umbrella at the music festival this weekend . |
| 24 | All these memories are connected incoherently to my mother : the oozing uterine passage closing in on Superman ; the dead man disclosed by nuns [ so pretty and so erotically close to the nightclub ] ; and the sadness of Limelight where , sitting in the dark with her I knew her pleasure at the tale was different to mine , an adult one , beyond me . |
| 25 | I thought I saw his head at the window . |
| 26 | ’ I saw your sister at the funeral , ’ I said . |
| 27 | As I clicked my stopwatch at the start line it began to rain . |
| 28 | Full of beans , I took my seat at the stalled dinner . |
| 29 | I took my place at the top of a walkway between the orchestra , the curtains opened and a lush sigh from the string section led the intro of ‘ Memories ’ . |
| 30 | May I express our disappointment at the last minute postponement of the carefully planned visit of Anne-Marie de Jonghe to Wales . |